SpreadsheetArena: Decomposing Preference in LLM Generation of Spreadsheet Workbooks

This paper introduces SpreadsheetArena, a platform for evaluating large language models' end-to-end spreadsheet generation capabilities through blind pairwise comparisons, revealing that while models can produce functional workbooks, they often fail to align with domain-specific best practices and that user preferences vary significantly across different use cases.

Srivatsa Kundurthy, Clara Na, Michael Handley, Zach Kirshner, Chen Bo Calvin Zhang, Manasi Sharma, Emma Strubell, John Ling2026-03-12💬 cs.CL

SENS-ASR: Semantic Embedding injection in Neural-transducer for Streaming Automatic Speech Recognition

The paper introduces SENS-ASR, a streaming automatic speech recognition approach that improves transcription quality under low-latency constraints by injecting semantic information extracted from past frame-embeddings via a context module trained through knowledge distillation from a fine-tuned language model.

Youness Dkhissi (LIUM), Valentin Vielzeuf (LIUM), Elys Allesiardo (LIUM), Anthony Larcher (LIUM)2026-03-12💬 cs.CL

Personalized Group Relative Policy Optimization for Heterogenous Preference Alignment

This paper introduces Personalized Group Relative Policy Optimization (P-GRPO), a novel framework that improves alignment with diverse individual preferences by decoupling advantage estimation from batch statistics and normalizing rewards against preference-group-specific histories, thereby overcoming the limitations of standard GRPO in handling heterogeneous user signals.

Jialu Wang, Heinrich Peters, Asad A. Butt, Navid Hashemi, Alireza Hashemi, Pouya M. Ghari, Joseph Hoover, James Rae, Morteza Dehghani2026-03-12🤖 cs.LG

Measuring and Eliminating Refusals in Military Large Language Models

This paper introduces a novel gold-standard dataset developed by US military veterans to quantify excessive safety refusals in military Large Language Models, demonstrating that while specialized fine-tuning can significantly reduce these refusals, achieving zero refusals and maximum accuracy requires deeper, end-to-end specialization.

Jack FitzGerald, Dylan Bates, Aristotelis Lazaridis, Aman Sharma, Vincent Lu, Brian King, Yousif Azami, Sean Bailey, Jeremy Cao, Peter Damianov, Kevin de Haan, Joseph Madigan, Jeremy McLaurin, Luke Kerbs, Jonathan Tainer, Dave Anderson, Jonathan Beck, Jamie Cuticello, Colton Malkerson, Tyler Saltsman2026-03-12💬 cs.CL

Assessing Cognitive Biases in LLMs for Judicial Decision Support: Virtuous Victim and Halo Effects

This study evaluates five large language models for judicial sentencing support and finds that while they exhibit a stronger virtuous victim effect and lack a significant penalty for adjacent consent compared to humans, they generally demonstrate reduced prestige-based halo effects, particularly regarding credentials, though current variability still limits their immediate deployment in legal settings.

Sierra S. Liu2026-03-12💻 cs

Defining AI Models and AI Systems: A Framework to Resolve the Boundary Problem

This paper addresses the regulatory ambiguity surrounding "AI models" and "AI systems" by proposing clear conceptual and operational definitions that distinguish trained parameters from broader system components, thereby facilitating the precise allocation of obligations across the AI value chain.

Yuanyuan Sun, Timothy Parker, Lara Gierschmann, Sana Shams, Teo Canmetin, Mathieu Duteil, Rokas Gipiškis, Ze Shen Chin2026-03-12🤖 cs.AI

A Governance and Evaluation Framework for Deterministic, Rule-Based Clinical Decision Support in Empiric Antibiotic Prescribing

This paper proposes a governance and evaluation framework for deterministic, rule-based clinical decision support systems in empiric antibiotic prescribing that prioritizes transparency, auditability, and conservative behavior by formally separating decision logic from scope constraints and utilizing synthetic case validation to ensure behavioral alignment with predefined rules.

Francisco José Gárate, Paloma Chausa, Diego Moreno, Judit López Luque, Vicens Díaz-Brito, Enrique Javier Gómez2026-03-12🤖 cs.AI

Architecture-Aware LLM Inference Optimization on AMD Instinct GPUs: A Comprehensive Benchmark and Deployment Study

This paper presents a comprehensive benchmark of production LLM inference on AMD Instinct MI325X GPUs, demonstrating that architecture-aware optimizations—specifically the selective use of the AITER runtime and specific KV cache configurations—are critical for maximizing throughput across diverse model families while maintaining high reliability under heavy concurrency.

Athos Georgiou2026-03-12🤖 cs.AI

HTM-EAR: Importance-Preserving Tiered Memory with Hybrid Routing under Saturation

HTM-EAR is a hierarchical tiered memory system that combines HNSW-based working memory with archival storage, importance-aware eviction, and hybrid routing to effectively preserve essential information and maintain high retrieval precision under sustained saturation, significantly outperforming traditional LRU approaches while approaching the performance of unbounded oracle memory.

Shubham Kumar Singh2026-03-12🤖 cs.AI

AMB-DSGDN: Adaptive Modality-Balanced Dynamic Semantic Graph Differential Network for Multimodal Emotion Recognition

The paper proposes AMB-DSGDN, a novel network for multimodal emotion recognition that utilizes modality-specific semantic graphs with a differential attention mechanism to filter noise and an adaptive balancing strategy to prevent dominant modalities from suppressing complementary cues, thereby enhancing the accuracy of dynamic emotional state modeling.

Yunsheng Wang, Yuntao Shou, Yilong Tan, Wei Ai, Tao Meng, Keqin Li2026-03-12🤖 cs.AI